Does MK17 flood?

Yes — parts of the MK17 district carry real flood risk: 11 of its 22 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The MK17 postcode district covers Newton Longville, Aspley & Woburn, Cranfield & Marston Moretaine, Danesborough & Walton, close to Water Eaton, Broughton, Willen, and surrounding villages in parts of City of Milton Keynes and Central Bedfordshire.

22 postcodes in the MK17 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 11 high, 5 medium, 6 low. A postcode not listed here has no properties in any recorded risk band (which is good news, but never proof it cannot flood).

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Which MK17 postcodes are at risk?

Rivers and flooding history near MK17

The rivers that matter here, each monitored live on FloodRadar:

Bletchley on the River Ouzel — 1.7 km away, highest on record 1.90m
WATERHALL BLETCHLEY FGS — 1.7 km away
Broughton on the Broughton Brook — 7.6 km away, highest on record 1.54m
WILLEN GS — 7.7 km away

76 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (56 at warning level or above), most recently 18 December 2025. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

Recorded flood extents near the district (Environment Agency record):

Easter 1998 (1998) — about 2.6 km from the centre
September 1992 (1992) — about 1.2 km from the centre
July 1968 (1968) — about 2.2 km from the centre
March 1947 (1947) — about 1.6 km from the centre

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

MK16 MK18 MK15 MK19 MK14 MK13 MK12 MK11

Band = the worst likelihood band of any property in that postcode (EA Risk of Flooding from Rivers & Sea, defence-adjusted, area-level). Check any postcode in detail — or get the full £19 property report — at the property flood-risk report. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved. Some features of this map are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH). © Crown Copyright and Database Rights 2025 OS AC0000807064. This product is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, the copyright in which is owned by Royal Mail Group Limited and/or Royal Mail Group plc. All rights reserved. Licence number AC0000807064.